FBT Gibbons Chairman Robert Sartin is featured and quoted by The American Lawyer, where he discusses the firm’s standout 2025 financial performance and the strategy fueling its continued national expansion.
The article highlights Frost Brown Todd’s 19% revenue growth, alongside a nearly 30% increase in profits per equity partner to $829,000 and a more than 32% rise in net income to $145.7 million — capping what Sartin described as “an extraordinary year.”
“It was an extraordinary year,” Sartin says. “If you go back 10 years, it’s for the most part, always been year-over-year growth, some years a little more than others. And it’s a result of our plan and our strategy to ultimately build out a national platform. We continue to grow in Texas. We’ve moved into and continue to grow in California. We opened in Colorado and continue to grow there. We’re making strategic hires in our traditional and legacy markets.”
Sartin also emphasizes that the firm’s national reach, collaborative culture and strong value proposition are translating directly into financial performance. “It’s that national reach, value proposition, culture around teamwork — that’s what’s resulting in the financial results,” he says.
Looking ahead, Sartin positioned the FBT Gibbons combination as a defining step in the firm’s evolution, calling it “a piece of the puzzle that truly now creates a national law firm with national reach… focused largely on the middle market economy.”